The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-17
The Cancelled Land Entries,

The commissioner of the general land
Offices, in his letter to Chairman Randall,
OF the house appropriations committee,
| gives some peculiar statements regarding
| the number OF Cancelled entries in Dakota.
He says; The record OF the cancellation
| OF any particular entry can always be
| at once referred to, nut there is NO
method oil forming an opinion in
respect to the total number OF cancella-
tions unless it should be arrived at by
guess Of possible percentages. These can
| cellations result from all the causes which
| affect land entries chief OF which are
abandonments and voluntary relinquish.
ments, and aggregate very considerable
po' ton OF original entries. A less, but
still large portion OF homestead entries
are relinquishc,l or abandoned. In Da-
kota it is estimated in the division OF this
| office having charge Oi ;he records that the
| cancellations frcna relinquishmeuts, aban-
| donments ahd contests are about one-half
OF all the entries originally made.
| The Supreme Court has decided that ga
railroad company receiving goods to be
transported over several lines of road is
| not responsible for the negligence of other
| carriers beyo it's OWN terminus, unless it
has SO contracted to transport the pro-
perty beyond its own line. Receiving goods
marked for a place beyond its own termi-
nus does not import an agreement to carry
to the station named.
Numerous business men OF all sorts are
brought into court at Minneapolis TO plead
to indictments for violations Of the Sun.
day law.
Archie Brown, a Young Canadian, living
at New london. disappeared. 1t was af-
terward learned that he had left in COM
pany with Malyina, or Vina Payl, the six
Srax do oS
the present superintendent OF the comfy
poor farm at DUluth
The postGthce at Rockville Stearns cour-
ty, has been discontinued.
D. II. Weir OF South Side Wright county,
died recently. He was one of the leading
citizens OF the town and county.
Mr., Strait has secured a pension, With q
considerable amount OF arrears, for H. A.
c, Armstrong OF Minneapolis.
The Custer post No. IL g. A. R., OF
Rochester, passed resolutions roundly de
nouncing the seheMs 20 build a state
soldiers hone, characterizing the move
as piece ,Ipoltical johoery and pledgins
themselves to us every means possible to
<sefeat the measure.
Patents have been issued to the following
inventors: Elias b. Birse, St. Paul. steam
boileT Alfred S. Clarke, Pennington, spring
b. Askew, st. Paul, alarm for the protec-
tion OF graves; J. s. Miller, Minneapolis,
carpet cleaning rsei Galaxy Mill company,
Minneapolis. wheat -four trade mark.
Andvsw r. Almquist has been commits
.ioned postmaster at Lakeland. A
new postofIice has been established at
Monlton, Pennington county, Dakota,
with David Z. Robinson postmaster Star
service change has been made on the route
or aotl nnl, t, fA "o&o
the route to end at Rudolph and omising
WateFford
Star mail service has been discontinued
in Dakota as follows: Route from Rome
to Rockford, route from Rritton to Lisbon,
route from Andover tn Britton.
Postmaster Y, NJ. Hall Of Glencoe l,ieti Of
consumption . few days ago.
Han. +. r. Delano, a prominent citizen
Of st. Paul. died recently of typhoid pneu-
monia at the age OF 62. He first settled in
saltwater in 1919.
Congressman Akin OF South Carolina is
not expected TO live. His illness is caused
by wa.nd in the lungs received in the
hs.ssta oil Gettysburg.
The lettings OF Minnesota star routes are
about completed at the postoffice depart.
nent. Mr., Strait was informed that Route
NO. Sd, 22O, from Beaver Falls to Bird
isfand has been awarded to John McNeely
of Bird Island At $3.50 per year; also that
No. 26, goa, from lie Sueur Center to Wa.
terville, St 1891 per year. and No. 26> eO3,
franl l4e Sueur Center to LIE Sueur at 1912
per year. had been let to j. n. SNaborn OF
Windsor, Mo.
On the 9TH the unusual spectacle OF thun.
der storm was observed in many places.
There was no rain save in ono or two
localities,
Penssoas have been allowed to the fol.
lowing persons in Louisa,
widow OF David Leiebore, St. Paul; Casper
Bloom, White Bear Lake; David Guerin,
st. Paul; William j. Applegate, Princeton;
I. c. Rabests, Hammond; II. A. C. Thomp-
SOM Minneapolis; Lyman Hollis, Luverne.
Dakota; Lydia A, widow of Nelson J Hor-
ton Detroit; Walter Brown, Detroit.
Pensions ota. w. H.
Humphrey. lie Sueur; George P Hall, Min
neapolis; J. D. Buell., Waterville; Andrew
Baker, Monticello; L. A. Youmans, East
Chain Lake. Dakota: Edwin Barl0w,
Columbia.
McInnerSey OF Marystown Scott county,
went down in n well, and was overcome by
iaaf air. His dead body was recovered.
In Congress- Mr.. Nelson, by unanimous
consent, got consideration for and seauretf
the passage OF the bill authorizine a term
OF the United States courts at Duluth in,
addition to the terms hela at Winona
and st. Paul.